Notes: KP 1. Harriet Beecher Stowe has become one of the most renowned writers of the 19th century 2.She was a member of the prominent New England Beecher family, the wife of Professor Calvin Stowe, and a mother to seven children. 3.It was in Cincinnati that Harriet published her first short story in theWestern Monthlymagazine.
1. Harriet worked as a teacher with her older sister Catharine.
2. Harriet married widower Calvin Stowe: they eventually had seven children
3.Stowe helped to support her family financially by writing for local and religious periodicals.
4.During her life, she wrote poems, travel books, biographical sketches, and children's books, as well as adult novels.
5.She died at the age of 85, in Hartford Conneticutt.
6. Harriet Beecher Stowe is predominantly known for her first,**//Uncle Tom's Cabin//**(1852).
7. Begun as a serial for the Washington anti-slavery weekly, the National Era, it focused public interest on the issue of slavery, and was deeply controversial.
8. Stowe drew on her personal experience: she was familiar with slavery.
9. Ohio, where Stowe had lived, was a slave state.
10.She published a second anti-slavery novel, Dred in1856.
11. In 1862, when she visited President Lincoln, legend claims that he greeted her as "the little lady who made this big war":
Uncle Tom’s Cabinis the first American novel to have an African-American protagonist.
Reflecting years later on her purposes in writing the novel, Stowe said in her journal, “I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother I was oppressed and brokenhearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity, because as a lover of my country I trembled at the coming day of wrath.”
Although Stowe’s intentions in creating her novel may have been altruistically motivated, many African Americans feel that being called an “Uncle Tom” is a slur of the worst order. Many find the title character to be the epitome of submissiveness.
In 1870, Stowe created an integrated school for both children and adults in Mandarin, Florida, a move toward integration that would not truly be realized in American for another fifty years or more.
Uncle Tom’s Cabinis the first American novel to have an African-American protagonist.
Reflecting years later on her purposes in writing the novel, Stowe said in her journal, “I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother I was oppressed and brokenhearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity, because as a lover of my country I trembled at the coming day of wrath.”
Although Stowe’s intentions in creating her novel may have been altruistically motivated, many African Americans feel that being called an “Uncle Tom” is a slur of the worst order. Many find the title character to be the epitome of submissiveness.
In 1870, Stowe created an integrated school for both children and adults in Mandarin, Florida, a move toward integration that would not truly be realized in American for another fifty years or more.
Her abolitionist novel is often credited with promoting so much empathy for slaves from readers in the North and so much anger from readers in the South that it was an instigator of the Civil War.
Her brother was the very famous minister Henry Ward Beecher.
In 1850 the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law (which allowed escaped slaves to be returned to their “masters”) so incensed Stowe that she felt it was her duty to write the novel.
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Notes: KP
1. Harriet Beecher Stowe has become one of the most renowned writers of the 19th century
2. She was a member of the prominent New England Beecher family, the wife of Professor Calvin Stowe, and a mother to seven children.
3. It was in Cincinnati that Harriet published her first short story in the Western Monthly magazine.
N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2010. < **//http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/stowe.html#bio//**>.
Notes: KP
1. Harriet worked as a teacher with her older sister Catharine.
2. Harriet married widower Calvin Stowe: they eventually had seven children
3.Stowe helped to support her family financially by writing for local and religious periodicals.
4.During her life, she wrote poems, travel books, biographical sketches, and children's books, as well as adult novels.
5.She died at the age of 85, in Hartford Conneticutt.
6. Harriet Beecher Stowe is predominantly known for her first, **//Uncle Tom's Cabin//** (1852).
7. Begun as a serial for the Washington anti-slavery weekly, the National Era, it focused public interest on the issue of slavery, and was deeply controversial.
8. Stowe drew on her personal experience: she was familiar with slavery.
9. Ohio, where Stowe had lived, was a slave state.
10.She published a second anti-slavery novel, Dred in1856.
11. In 1862, when she visited President Lincoln, legend claims that he greeted her as "the little lady who made this big war":
N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2010. < **//http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/stowe/StoweHB.html//**>.
Notes at School: KP
N.p., n.d. Web. 28 May 2010. <**//http://www.enotes.com/authors/harriet-beecher-stowe//**>.
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N.p., n.d. Web. 28 May 2010. <**//http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/00_01/WH/loc/loc.htm//**>.
Notes: KP
N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Jun 2010. <http://www.enotes.com/authors/harriet-beecher-stowe>.
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N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Jun 2010. <http://www.answers.com/topic/harriet-beecher-stowe>.